Puppy memes & Pokemon: How Russiagate went off the rails, with Aaron Maté (Ep. 8)

Moderate Rebels episode 8 - Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
discuss how the narrative of Russian "hacking" of US politics has
gone off the deep end, with supposedly serious news reports on how
the Kremlin purportedly used puppy memes and Pokemon to undermine
American democracy.

We are joined by journalist Aaron Maté to discuss the
madness.

This episode also features an ad for an upcoming documentary
film series, "Russia's Plot to Make America Racist."

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Moderate Rebels is a political podcast hosted by journalists Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton. We regularly report on America's bellicose foreign policy and the deceptions deployed to sell it to the public. We also connect the dots to show how the state of perpetual war fuels dangerous right-wing politics back home.
Max and Ben created this podcast to help provide a platform to the dissident journalists, scholars, and activists challenging the US empire. We hope to show listeners what’s behind the endless war propaganda that is sold to us each day in the corporate media.